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Intergalactic Politics in "The Expanse"

Alienating the Audience

CHAPTER

The Story of the Second Apocalypse

This is a story about space, it's one of those what ifs and that's what makes it beautiful. It doesn't need to be an allegory of things. There are background worldview elements to this or rather how the authors see the world. I think there's also like a hard sociology element to this. The storyline is focusing on individuals and reconstituting these groups of individuals. But it's very messy. It's unplanned and it's not easy to make it reductive for that reason.

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